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Supreme Court won't rule on carrying guns in public [View all]
http://www.ksdk.com/story/news/nation/2014/05/05/supreme-court-wont-rule-on-carrying-guns-in-public/8720961/Note: This has also been posted in LBN, but needs wider visibility.
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appears hesitant to wade back into the national debate on guns.
The court refused Monday to decide whether the right to bear arms extends outside the home. The justices won't consider a challenge to a New Jersey law that restricts most residents from carrying guns in public.
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New Jersey law enforcement groups defended the state's requirement that citizens prove a "justifiable need" to carry handguns outside the home, whether openly or concealed from view. In their brief, they claimed the law "qualifies as a presumptively lawful, longstanding regulation that does not burden conduct within the scope of the Second Amendment's guarantee."
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Ever since Justice Antonin Scalia wrote for a divided Supreme Court in 2008 that the Second Amendment to the Constitution protects the right to possess guns at home, the question of public places has been looming. Many states impose restrictions, such as requiring a demonstrated need to carry a gun, whether concealed or in plain sight. Most lower courts have upheld those restrictions.
The court refused Monday to decide whether the right to bear arms extends outside the home. The justices won't consider a challenge to a New Jersey law that restricts most residents from carrying guns in public.
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New Jersey law enforcement groups defended the state's requirement that citizens prove a "justifiable need" to carry handguns outside the home, whether openly or concealed from view. In their brief, they claimed the law "qualifies as a presumptively lawful, longstanding regulation that does not burden conduct within the scope of the Second Amendment's guarantee."
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Ever since Justice Antonin Scalia wrote for a divided Supreme Court in 2008 that the Second Amendment to the Constitution protects the right to possess guns at home, the question of public places has been looming. Many states impose restrictions, such as requiring a demonstrated need to carry a gun, whether concealed or in plain sight. Most lower courts have upheld those restrictions.
The right-wing gun lobby is eager to claim victory over their view of "guns for everyone, everywhere" but it ain't over until it's over. The nightmare of "shall issue" everywhere is the stuff of gun nuts' wet dreams, and an invitation to more vigilante "justice" by the likes of Zimmerman and the Bundy domestic-terrorist "militias."
Support a gun control organization of your choice today, and help put an end to the right-wing gun lobby's push for guns as a way to solve social issues, and the public health menace guns in our streets cause.
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